Category: The Great Outdoors
Amsterdam and Ice Skating ~ Part 4 ~1937-1940
1937 ~ Gonne Donker Gonne Donker was the first Dutch woman to compete in the World Allround Speed...
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Amsterdam and Ice Skating ~ Part 3 ~ 1917-1934
1917 ~Â The Twenty Towns Tour The Zuyder Zee Flood that struck the Netherlands in the night of...
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Amsterdam and Ice Skating ~ Part 2 ~ 1880-1892
1880 – The Oldest Photographs of Skating on the Ice Below is just one of the marvellous...
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Amsterdam and Ice Skating – The beginning…..
The oldest skates ever found in the Netherlands date from as far back as around AD 700. They were...
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The Changing Perception of the English Lake District from Shrine to Nature to National Playground: The Role of the Co-operative Holidays Association
https://youtu.be/zfb5ywm5Mag Presented by: Doug Hope The Co-operative Holidays Association (CHA),...
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‘Oh the good times of old England; in old England very good times’: Leisure in post- First World War rural reconstruction
Presented by Prof. Bob Snape Centre for Worktown Studies, University of Bolton ‘Oh the good times...
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Whipper In – The Northumberland And Durham Paperchase League
The North East Harrier League is the oldest cross country league in the country, it evolved from...
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Jaap Eden: A Very Modern Sportsman
Jaap Eden celebrating a Skating World Championship 1893-1895 In 1895, Jaap Eden, a...
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